To increase safety behaviors at the factory, human resources introduced a safety

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To increase safety behaviors at the factory, human resources introduced a safety lottery. Any employee without any write-ups for safety issues had their name placed in a lottery. One name was then drawn and that person was given a voucher to take their family out at a fancy local restaurant. The type of reinforcement schedule is best described as:

Fixed interval

Fixed ratio

Variable interval

Variable ratio

Carlos had been assigned a new task at work. It was new to the company and no one knew how to get it done. Carlos’s strategy for this task was trial and error. He tried many different solutions. The first one he tried didn’t work and that made him unhappy, so he moved onto the next possible solution. That one didn’t work either, which also made him unhappy, so he moved onto the next one, and he continued on that pattern until he eventually found a solution to the task, which made him very happy because he had been working a long time to find one. He then tried the solution again and it worked again, which also made him happy. At that point he wrote up the solution to share with the rest of the company. Carlos’s actions are best described by the law of:

Explanation / Answer

Ans 1 : Variable ratio

The variable ratio reinforcement is the one where the response is scheduled after a variable and unconsistent number of times , which creates a good responsing rate.

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